As promised yesterday, here are the photos I took of all* the games. * I may have missed some I will apologise in advance for the quality of some of the photos - the lighting in the hall was rather variable and my camera didn't always focus properly. Now go and make yourself a nice cup of tea or coffee. Got one? OK, scroll on. Exit 23 Games - Relicblade Farplace Trading - Farplace The Game GCT Studios - Bushido I took this photo very early on - it's possible that there was more on show later in the day. Continental Wars Society - Baden Uprising 1849 Corvus Belli - I ..read more

 (and proof of life) I am fully aware that I haven't posted anything on my blog for almost a year now. The main reason for that is that I have been suffering from a complete painting block since I finished those fatties last May. As a result, there hasn't been anything for me to post. I have played a few games at the club, but on each occasion I forgot to take my camera so there were no photos of those to post. Anyhow, yesterday I went to Salute, partly out of habit and partly in the hope that it might give me the kick-start I so clearly need. I had a good time and it was great to see it ..read more

 Oh dear. It seems that I dropped away from posting for much longer than I should have done. Sorry about that. I haven't picked up a paint brush since finishing that pair of Fatties, as I've been doing a lot of test printing for Kathy Millatt's kickstarter campaign. I've also been doing a lot of design work for the Peach Trees terrain. I think I've now got the atrium walkways as good as I can get them now - I just need to adjust the positioning of the OpenLock clip holes and make some minor changes to the corner pillars. I've also test-printed enough sections to do three levels of one sid ..read more

 And that's another two figures for Block Wars painted. OK, so that's 5 out of 17 from the first wave, which means I'm a long way behind schedule. At least now that I'm out of my rut, the rest should follow on quickly. Fats Hambo Every fat camp has a Fats Hambo, to one degree or another.  A militant campaigner for fat rights, they are true believers in the Grud-given gift of as much food for every fattie as they can stomach.   Using (and bending) the laws for arming Citi-Def units, they have managed to get their hands on powerful weaponry and just enough training to b ..read more

  I seem to be coming out of my painting rut! I managed to get the highlighting and metal details done on the two models I first started painting (checks back - errmmm, crap - errmm - surely not that long?) four weeks ago.  Tomorrow I'll give them a light gloss coat, black-lining wash and then varnish and base them. It's just as well that I'm coming out of that painting rut as this arrived yesterday: What's that? You don't seriously think I'm planning to paint a cardboard box, do you? I mean, I know I've done some daft painting projects, but that would just be too silly. No, no ..read more

Yesterday saw me make my pilgrimage to the ExCel Centre in London for Salute 50. Unlike most years, I wasn't traveling from home, as I'd been down at my sister's in Sussex for a couple of nights. I had planned to catch the 0836 train and got there in plenty of time to buy my ticket, but that train was cancelled so I had to get the 0906. Oh well, at least I had time to buy a coffee at the station before boarding. I eventually got to the venue just before 11am and aftr a few minutes negotiating my way through the crowd of runners pre0registerign for the London Marathon, I made it to the show ent ..read more

  And that's the first three figures from Wave 1 of the Block Wars expansion done and dusted. As mentioned on Wednesday, I took the opportunity to also paint two Lawmaster bikes which had been sitting primed in the drawer for over a year. Riot Control Judges The Riot Control Division is made up of Judges who don't make the grade for Street Division, but have the necessary qualities and aptitude for dealing with the frequent riots and block wars that occur in Mega City One. The one without a riot shield is armed with a riot foam dispenser - the foam hardens rapidly, trapping anyb ..read more

  Well, that is what I got primed a week or so ago. Most of the figures are "model railway people"; some I am leaving as greyscale to use as "average citizens" for Judge Dredd games, the rest will get painted up to bulk out the "Resident Mobs" for Block Wars games (at least until Warlord decide to t=do the obvious and release further Resident Mob packs - the two from the starter pack and the ten in their own pack just won't be enough for one player, let alone two). I also primed all the figures from the first wave of Block Wars. "Average Citizens" - I need to get some 30mm round b ..read more

  As predicted, this submission took me very close to the wire yesterday - it was just before midnight that I finished writing the post, six hours before the deadline. If I hadn't stayed up working through Saturday night I wouldn't have got it done in time. Of course, if I hadn't spent so much time working on that backdrop then I wouldn't have been in such a rush at the end. Full post here Backdrop Cargo Figures Small Scale Ships Spirit of Camberwell As you can see, I went a bit overboard with the weathering. I started off just trying to ..read more

  OK, so it's actually Sunday here in the UK but it is still Saturday to the West! Tomorrow is the final day of the Challenge, and I'm frantically trying to finish things off in time to get everything photographed and the post written before the deadline. Today has mostly been cutting up the decals I've made, gloss varnishing the Type S ready for adding decals, painting and gloss varnishing the backdrop pieces, priming and base-coating 1/270 and 1/1000 versions of the Type S (I thought that if I do have time to get them finished, they'd make a great addition to the post - I'll just have ..read more